1932
Venturesome souls who make the westward trek to California for the Stanford game or at other times throughout the year will find a liberal sprinkling of Thirty-Twos in the state. Thanks to two informative letters from Win Smoyer and Al Gerould and a check-up of our records, we present the following as the approximate here and now of California's seventeen:
Mai Metcalf has been in Los Angeles since the 1932 Olympics. After a few years at the Firestone Tire & Rubber plant he began to study physical education, and this year received a teacher's credential from U. S. C. on credits made while working. This fall he is in his element—coaching track at Pomona High and Junior College. Mai is unmarried as yet.
John Collins is an up-and-coming stock and bond man. Recently he was assigned to help set up a new office for William Statz & Co. in Santa Ana, Calif. Jack King is with W. T. Grant in Santa Barbara. Jack Eliot is handling investments, living in Pasadena. Dick Clarke is in the advertising business, resides at 9533 Brighton Way, Beverly Hills. Bob Ryan, whose Thespian activities a la Reinhardt were discussed last month, is now established at 127 N. Hamilton Drive, Beverly Hills. Howie Newcomb runs a service station at 1155 Glendon, Los Angeles. Another L. A. resident is John Cabot, living at 5129 Sunset Blvd.
Al Gerould works in the Stanford University Library in Palo Alto, and has been designated by the Pow-Wow committee to entertain visiting 'ga firemen. In and around San Francisco are Charlie Doerr, in McKesson's S. F. branch at 50 First St., and Jim Riley, whose last recorded address is 1306 Hobart Bldg. Joe Davison, after a variety of experiences which took him to Alaska and other far-flung places, is now selling advertising specialties in S. F. Perc Stone is with Schwabacher-Frey & Co., and lives at 766 Sutter St. Just outside the city, Luke Watson teaches at the Bonita School.
Elsewhere in California, Paul Cook is principal of the school at Heber, while Carl Wright spends his time at Rancho Elevado in Azusa. Win Smoyer, a store- house of information about others, has this to add about himself:
"With Metcalf, and with Morgan Hobart, who has since gone to New York, I worked for a few years at the Firestone plant in Los Angeles. Last year I took my M.A. in Public Administration at the University of California in Berkeley. Recently under Civil Service appointment I came to San Luis Obispo, a burg of 8,000, for the Department of Employment of California." Win was married in 1936, and has a young daughter, Anne Elizabeth, at the diaper stage. On a 1937 trip to Detroit he saw Johnny Palmer, another Firestone man. "Young Patty," he comments, "now has long curls, and is apparently keeping the old man too busy to answer letters." In Detroit Win also saw Tom Lott, lawyer with Yost, Gallogly, & Lott, who has "not forgotten how to guzzle beer."
Visitors to Seattle may want to know that John Shields, when not burning up the golf links, can be found at 2046 26th Ave. North, and that Ken Kennett makes his home at 5053 Admiral Way. Bill Cole is in the American Consulate in Vancouver. Others out in the Wide Open Spaces are: Idaho—Charles Housel (formerly Cunningham), who teaches school near Edgemere. Wyoming—Hank Weston, who banks in Jackson. Colorado—Harry Litzenberger at H. H. Tammen Cos., Denver; Eddie Toothaker, 1157 South Vine St., Denver; Joe Stetman, 745 Gaylord St., Denver, and Bob McKenna, 809 11th St., Boulder. Arizona—Johnny Croly, heading the Science Dept. at the Southern Arizona School for Boys in Tucson; Figs Crafts, a forester at the University of Arizona, also in Tucson; Jack Light, with the Double Circle Cattle Co. in Clifton, and Charlie Morrison, mining engineer at Ajo. Mexico—Chasby Fisher, last recorded at Calle 15 Sur, 1106, Puebla, Pue.
Montana—Jerk Elliot at Yegen Bros, in Billings; George Hill, 1151 W. Porphyry St., Butte, and Jack Titcomb, apt to be mining around Cooke, if not in Nevada or Empire, Ontario, Canada.
At least it said "Cooke, Mont." on a limerick-bearing postcard from Titcomb which reached Al Gerould recently. Al also reports that he saw Pete Knight in Cleveland this summer. "The latest of Pete," he writes, "is that he has snagged a traveling fellowship to Europe this winter and, I believe, is already over there with Rusty (wife) studying landscape gardening. Good to get in while the gardens are still there." Al was in Hanover this summer for a few minutes, saw Fordy Sayre but no '32s. He was planning an early September trip, lugging a pack around the Sierra at altitudes of from eight to twelve thousand feet.
Back in the East, Don Thompson is a Baltimore engineer, living at 4216 Loch Raven Blvd.; Johnny Wolff is in construction engineering at 101 Park Ave., N. Y., and Claire Farr is an engineer in the duPont Dye Works at Deepwater, N. J. Marc Rose gives his address as Point Pleasant, N. J., his occupation as writer. Al Christie has moved in from Grand Rapids to manage the W. T. Grant store at 429 W. Broadway, South Boston, Mass.
Whip the Walser had a great laugh this spring "taking a bunch of clerics through the Kasbah in Algiers—about the toughest red light district in the world—even worse than Port Said." On his return from a long trip through Eastern Mediterranean ports he was laid up some weeks in New York, following a serious appendix operation. This fall he took off again, and a Cairo postcard written in mid-September disclosed he was rounding back into shape.
Stan Yudicky, M.D., is affiliated with Elliot Hospital, Manchester, N. H. and answers phone calls at 550 Lincoln St. In Minneapolis, Karl Andresen has opened offices in the Medical Arts Building. Don Richardson now commutes to New York and Liberty Mutual from the Van Tassell Apts. in North Tarrytown. Art Simm is assistant secretary and treasurer of the Tokeneke Club, Darien, Conn. George Denison is a commission agent for the Thies Dyeing Mills, West Warwick, R. I. Dick Olmsted is with the A. & P. in New Haven, lives at R.F.D. 1, Branford, Conn. Hank Kingdom in Atlanta, Ga., manages the Sears Roebuck emporium at 3031 Peachtree Road.
Johnny Sheldon came East from Chicago this summer on his vacation, saw Tucker and Clark in Washington, and "spent a very good evening listening to the SEC'S most promising attorney, Wilbur Mack, expand at length on the Missouri Pacific, Red Rolfe, and other important matters." Other Sheldon gleanings: (1) Tom Wollaeger was married in Milwaukee Sept. 24 to Gertrude Hasse. (2) Charlie Doerr passed through Chicago in early September on his way to the annual McKesson convention at White Sulphur. (3) Steve Harwood is the father of husky two-month-old son named Frederick. (4) Bob Ackerberg, attorney and Chicago Dartmouth Club official, spends much time extolling the virtues of the city manager form of municipal government.
Your Secretary some months ago cut loose from the liquor trade press to wind up an M.A. in Sociology at Columbia, and is now managing editor of Better Times, a weekly review and magazine of social welfare activity in New York, published by the Welfare Council of New York City.
Bo Daniels is owner and manager of a sales and service agency of the International Harvester Co. in Xenia, Ohio. Pete Ostafin is teaching Socy at the University of Michigan, after three years' instructorship at St. Mary's College. Bob Hosmer, on a recent trip to Manhattan, reported that John Keller was doing a bang-up job as acting sales manager of Bradford Oil.
Let's have some news, and maybe a few pictures from you minicam fiends.
Secretary, 215 Lakeville Rd., Great Neck, L. I., N. Y.
